This paper discusses a new National Science Foundation-funded project that will examine the dynamics of third-party international mediation using statistical time-series analyses of political event data. Third-party mediation was attempted in over half of the conflicts in the post-WWII period and it is likely that the use of mediation has increased following the end of the Cold War. Surprisingl...

Despite tremendous popularity of video games, there have been concerns about their detrimental effects on children. The game rating systems were developed to assist parents in monitoring their children’s gaming experiences. This paper explores how parents in Iran, as a society without established media rating systems, control their children’s gaming experiences. Mixed methods of semi-structured...

* Ms. Landrum holds a Juris Doctor (JD) and a Certificate in Dispute Resolution from The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law. Prior to attending law school, she earned a Ph.D. in history from The Ohio State University. She would like to thank Sarah Randolph Cole for her insight and comments on drafts of this article. 1 See, e.g., Lisa G. Lerman, Mediation of Wife Abuse Cases: The Advers...

This paper describes a formalism for context mediation based on Feature Logic. The formalism enables a distinction to be drawn between integrity and translational aspects of mediation. It is independent of the relational model, though easily used within it. The formalism makes precise the concept of 'context' and provides a framework for mediation between disparate data sources.

We consider Bs → μ+μ− and the muon (g − 2)μ in various SUSY breaking mediation mechanisms. If the decay Bs → μ+μ− is observed at Tevatron Run II with a branching ratio larger than ∼ 2 × 10−8, the noscale supergravity (including the gaugino mediation), the gauge mediation scenario with small number of messenger fields and low messenger scale, and a class of anomaly mediation scenarios will be ex...

Donald Schon has advanced the notion that a systematic understanding of professional practice can be built on the reflective insights of skilled practitioners. The "reflective practitioner" paradigm is well suited to mediation research. A study of divorce mediation illustrates how Schon's seminal ideas can be translated into research procedures with broad applicability to a variety of mediation...